If you felt cheated and robbed my quick-and-dirty recap of Tuesday at E3, go pee, wash your hands and make yourself a snack. Here's an exhaustive accounting of nearly everything I saw and did on Wednesday at the video game industry's annual confab in L.A. I'll be posting more detailed stuff on a lot of these games in the days and weeks to come, but I wanted to get this out there while it's still fresh in my mind.
I'll be spending a good chunk of this week in Los Angeles at E3, where I expect to get my eyes and hands on a lot of the new games and hardware we'll be playing with over the next year.
If you've got a 360, this weekend's all about "Halo: Reach." But don't let the free beta dissuade you from checking out a handful of solid-looking handheld titles.
I've fallen a bit behind on these, as there've been a fair number of new releases and I've found myself working weekends. Let's get caught up, shall we? Nintendo DSi XL ($190): Nintendo's latest handheld, in stores Sunday, is simply a bigger version of the last one. If you eyed [...]
The DSi XL, the latest iteration of Nintendo's popular DS handheld, hit stores on Sunday. But an announcement that the company would release a 3D handheld device within the next year took some of the steam out of the launch.
"Final Fantasy XIII" (rated T, $60 on PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360): After nearly five years, Square Enix's flagship franchise finally arrives on the PS3 and 360. Plotwise, it's the standard fare of a band of misfits teaming up to save the world, but the gameplay has been shaken up [...]
"Battlefield: Bad Company 2" (rated M, $60 on Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, $50 on PC): Like its closest competitor, "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2," this game features a single-player campaign but is really all about the online multiplayer. The main things this game offers over its rival are [...]
On Wednesday, Nintendo had a press-only event in San Francisco, similar in nature to Microsoft's X10 shindig a couple of weeks ago. Unlike X10, I didn't manage to make this event, but here's a quick rundown of some of the announcements we saw. The new DSi XL, which has a [...]
Ahead of my Game of the Year announcement later Thursday and Friday's list of runners-up, here's a look at some games that might have made the cut, if only I'd found time to play them.